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Strong Girls and Bright Colours: Current Themes in Swedish Picture Books DOCUMENT RESUME ED 459 791 IR 058 286 AUTHOR Lundgren, Elisabeth TITLE Strong Girls and Bright Colours: Current Themes in Swedish Picture Books. PUB DATE 2001-08-00 NOTE 8p.; In: Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age. Council and General Conference: Conference Programme and Proceedings (67th, Boston, MA, August 16-25, 2001); see IR 058 199. AVAILABLE FROM For full text: http://www.ifla.org. PUB TYPE Book/Product Reviews (072) Speeches/Meeting Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Childrens Literature; Females; Foreign Countries; *Foreign Language Books; Illustrations; *Picture Books; *Swedish IDENTIFIERS Sweden; *Theme (Literary) ABSTRACT Strong girls and bright colors characterize many Swedish picture books in recent years. The girls are visible and active, and the books also include many wise mothers. The picture books deal with a variety of subjects, ranging from very difficult subjects like death to pure nonsense. Sweden has many good illustrators who work experimentally with colors and shapes. Some are influenced by cartoons and they use their expressions widely, humorously, artistically, and innovatively. One of the themes in Swedish picture books that is emphasized in this paper is deep life experiences and feelings, including essential emotions like jealousy or the fear of not being good enough. The paper provides annotations of Swedish picture books in the following thematic areas:(1) strong girls--the gender perspective; (2) love, friendship, and family life;(3) picture book wisdom; (4) separated worlds--the child and the grown up;(5) life and death; (6) good books for the very small;(7) experiments in shape and color; and (8) humor. (MES) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 67th IFLA Council and General Conference August 16-25, 2001 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Code Number: 125-162-E L1-_././.-_,a.A r T.sn a ,a_aUfa c (=min e. Division Number: III Professional Group: Libraries for Children and Young Adults TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Joint Meeting with: INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 1 Meeting Number: 162 Simultaneous Interpretation: Strong Girls and BrightColours- current themes in Swedish picture books Elisabeth Lundgren U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement Director, Department of Cultureand Libraries EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Kungalv, Sweden This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily tepresent Strong girls and bright colours characterise many Swedish picture books in recent years. official OERI position or policy. The girls are visible and active and there are lots of wise mothers too. The picture book may deal with very difficult subjects, like death, as well as with pure nonsense. Sweden has many good illustrators who work experimentally with colours and shapes. Some are influenced by cartoons and they use their expressions widely, humorously, artistically and are highly innovative. One of the themes in Swedish picture books that I want to emphasise is the deep experiences and feelings that we all meet in life, no matter who or where we are - essential emotions like jealousy, bad conscience or the fear of not being good enough. This theme is difficult to mirror, but many authors/illustrators have succeeded quite well within the wide concept of the picture book. Some put the stress on the words and some on the pictures, but the strong expression is made by words and pictures together forming an ikonotext. Strong Girlsthe gender perspective I am glad to say that there are plenty of strong, brave, even striking, girls in the picture books of recent years; girls who take the initiative, who don't back off even if they are afraid. We can talk about a gender perspective in the picture book and the need to high-light girls as main characters. There is definitely a gender discussion going on in Swedish picture books today. "Nice girls go to heaven, others will go as far as ever" is an expression that is often illustrated by a woman who looks at herself in a mirror. In "My bold mouth" with words by Kim Futz and pictures by Eva Eriksson, the opening scene is a girl who looks at her bold mouth in a mirror, looks and remembers what happened earlier the same day. 1 o BEST COPY AVAILABLE The approach is retro-perspective, unusual for picture books. The story is about the mouth that doesn't do what the owner wants. It says nasty things to people the whole day, but in the end, the girl gets two lovely rewards: a candy and a kiss. To be impudent may be a good thing, sometimes... Eva Eriksson is one of the most skilful Swedish illustrators who also create picture books of her own, writing the words as well. Gittan and the Grey Wolves by Pija Lindenbaum won the August Prize 2000a Swedish award for the best children's book of the year. The book is very wise and humorous. The fantastic illustrations cover the pages generously. The pictures play with shapes, perspectives and movements. Gittan is a girl who doesn't do what girls are not supposed to. She dares almost nothing at all. But one day, left alone by her pre-school group, she meets the grey wolves. She immediately takes the lead and commands the wolves to play with her. Red is the dominating colour in the pictures. Red is also the colour of Gittan's jacket. The story is about fear and courage. How to overcome one's fear, and that everything is not shown on the surface of people. The story has background from reality. Pija's own daughter was just such a girl who didn't dare to climb. In the book as well as in reality, the final picture illustrates the girl standing on the rooftop of the playhouse... Pija Lindenbaum illustrates and writes as well. The girl who just wanted to read (ill.: Anna Clara Tidholm, words by Sonja Hulth) This book is about a girl who lives on top of a hill in a house without electricity. She carries home lots of books from the library, but at home there is no light. So she buys a windmill from a post order company, but then the winds themselves disappear. There's only one thing to do: go out and hunt for winds. And the winds promise to blow as long as there are unread books in the world... This girl is positive to identify with. She is active, practical and she does just what she wants to doshe reads. Ann-Clara Tidholm is one of my favourites. She is a skilful illustrator, often illustrating together with her husband Thomas who does the lyrics. Their picture books have important messages and shows great respect for children, especially the very small ones. Eva Lindström likes to write about strong independent girls who do what they want. In Me and Stig dig a hole the girl is the one who does things, rolls downhill and digs. Stig doesn't dare. Instead he reads cartoons. When Stig falls into the hole, the girl lifts him up again, and when they quarrel, she is the one who compromises. The book deals skilfully with conflicts and shows how to become friends although you are differentactive/passive, brave/a coward. The books about Me and Stig are small passion dramas. In I Like Stig, Eva Lindström manages to describe such a complex feeling as jealousy in small words and expressive illustrations. LindstrOm's pictures create a world of its own. Her figures are huge with rounded or square somewhat sullen faces. They form vulnerability and expositivity, but also warmth and happiness. She uses a perspective from down under and things are spread over the surface on top of each other in a very deliberate composition with no depth. Details turn up over and over again, leaves, snails, and worms, a rope that winds over to the next page, a cat in the background... Dark soily colours and naivism. Lindström knows a lot about the human mindlove pain can be eased by chocolate... Good picture books have something for every reader; for the four years old child as well as the forty years old adult. We all carry a need to be understood and comforted. Eva Lindström gives an on-the-spot account from every day's life anywhere, anyhow. 2 Lene Glow-Worm by Helena Olofsson is an essential book about mobbing. Lene is new in the class and is met by a girl who instantly gives her the name Glow-Worm. This is a rather dark story about how nasty little girls sometimes treat each other. The pictures underline the nastiness, how it feels when everybody turn their backs on you and whisper... Shows the anger and pain inside the victim that cannot be expressed. Love, friendship and family life Love and friendship is another important theme. Happy love, love between children and adults, between children and animals Where animals often function as metaphors, sustainable relations where persons und,,ret/n1ding, ,,xict,,ntial ilk,' h tha Annkc cihrii!! Vino qn4Tho Woehrohno !Mg MP Mole. Some books describe modern varieties offamily life, the divorced parent or the homosexual family. Anna Hoglund and Gunnar Lundkvist have written and drawn the books about the Hedgehog and the Mole. Gender perspectives, where the meticulous and dutiful Mole (the man, drawn by Gunnar Lundkvist) lives with the bohemic immaterial and immediate Hedgehog (the woman, drawn by Anna Hoglund).
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